The Contestant Flies Off the Handle by Heather Horrocks

Author:Heather Horrocks [Horrocks, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, paranormal, vampires, werewolves, Witches, wizards, shifters, movies, hackers, computers
Publisher: Word Garden Press
Published: 2017-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

You Want to Work With This Vampire?

“ARE YOU OKAY?” ISAAC ASKED.

“The runestones are gone?” It was a rhetorical question; she couldn’t feel their presence.

“Let’s go find out what’s happened.” Isaac’s voice was gentle and he squeezed her hand.

She nodded and followed him to the reception area, where deputies and pageant security guards milled about.

“Sheriff, what’s going on?” Isaac asked a big man.

The man looked up from a notepad and frowned. “We just had a theft. Part of the grand prize.”

“The runestones?” Cara asked, her voice catching.

The man looked at her. “Yes.”

Isaac said, releasing her hand, “This is Cara O’Sullivan. Cara, this is Sheriff Samuel Winston. Cara is the contestant from Ireland.”

“Ms. O’Sullivan.” Sheriff Winston nodded at her, then turned back to Isaac. “We’re taking fingerprints. Also the Connolly Coven has been called in to cast a spell that will help us track the stones. It would help if we knew what kind of power they have.” The sheriff spoke to the crowd in general. “Does anyone have information on what the stones do?”

Cara caught herself before she told him about her family’s connection with the stones. Not sure what her family would want her to do, she needed to talk with them before offering any information. “I’m going to go to my room now, if that’s all right.”

Isaac and the sheriff nodded in unison. Isaac said, “I’ll see you tomorrow, Cara.”

She stumbled through the lobby and through the guards at the elevator doors, showing them her pageant ID.

At the door of the suite, she paused. She didn’t want anyone to overhear her and she wasn’t ready to face her flatmates. Roommates. She was still shaking.

The runestones were gone! Her family might never get them back — this was the worst-case scenario!

She got back on the elevator and went to the third floor, where the Empress Tea Lodge was, as well as a large sitting area. She wandered until she found a small, deserted alcove. Then she pulled out her phone and called her sister Mary’s number.

“Cara, sweet, it’s nearly five in the morning here.” Mary’s voice was sleep thickened. “Couldn’t this have waited?”

“The runestones have been stolen!”

“What?” Mary sounded more awake already.

“Stolen.”

“When?”

“In the last couple of hours.”

“What happened?” Her sister sounded frantic.

“I don't know. We just came back to the hotel and found out.”

“We?”

Cara paused. “Isaac Murphy and me.”

“Well, that’s interesting, but not as urgent as finding the stones. What can you do there to find them?”

“They’re calling in the Connolly Coven to cast a tracking spell. But the sheriff says it would help them if they knew what the stones could do.”

“Did you tell them, then?”

“I didn’t know what to do. We haven’t said anything about losing the stones or about these being our family stones. My job was to come here and win them back, not announce that they were ours in the first place.”

“Let me get Mam and Da and Nana.”

“Hurry.”

A few very long minutes later, Mary said, “The whole family is here on speaker phone.”

“Good morning,” Cara said.

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